Mr.Fiction

This is a couple days old but I haven't seen it posted here. I think we have some Escort webmasters at GFY, thought they might care.

Vice squads troll online alleyways

Web escort services, sites that advertise prostitution,
even Web personals are scrutinized and pursued

Oct. 3 ? In July, Florida officials arrested the operators of an international Web site that brazenly advertised the ?escort services? of sex workers across the U.S. and six other countries. A judge promptly ordered the site closed. Florida law enforcement officers hailed the arrests as a huge victory and a significant step toward successful prosecution of sex crimes that have moved from Main Street to Cyberville. Small catch: the site never closed; it?s still active, including ads hawking $17,000 all day ?dates? with famous porn stars.

?TELL ME ABOUT IT,? says a clearly frustrated Chris Brown, a prosecutor with the Florida attorney general?s office, who is in charge of prosecuting the case against the Web site known as Bigdoggie.net in an investigation dubbed ?Operation Flea Collar.?

Brown also charged a dozen others in conjunction with the two owners, lodging 57 counts ranging from racketeering to aiding and abetting prostitution.

?As far as we know, this case may be the first or one of the first, in which we are going after not only the prostitutes we believe are the core members of this organization [bigdoggie.net] in the Tampa area, but also the [Web site] owners and the registered users of the Web site,? Brown said.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/809825.asp